ZIVALORD FIBKVKA

arrangements be made for at least six reporters-that the chairs and tables be placed where they will not be jarred or overthrown by the people on the platform and where there will be no room for persons to crowd between the reporters and the speakers-and that somebody with authority and physical strength enough to secure obedience, be appointed to keep loafers out of the reporting corner. These things are absolutely essential to the accuracy of the reports.

[Galesburg Democrat, October 6, 1858]

We learn that the Republican delegations will arrive tomorrow, as near as possible, in the following order:

Knoxville delegation will come with Lincoln, at half-past II A. M., down Main street. Galesburg escort will meet them about a mile from the

square.

Mercer county delegation will come in from the west, on Main street. Cameron and adjoining towns will come in from the southwest at 12 o'clock.

Monmouth delegation on 12 o'clock train.

Abingdon delegation on 10 o'clock train, and some in carriages. Henderson, Oneida, Victoria, Rio and Wataga delegations will enter the city from the east on Main street, at about 12 M.

Train from Chicago and intermediate stations arrives at 1:25.
Train from Peoria at 12 M.

[Galesburg, Ill., Democrat, October 4, 1858]

[For the Galesburg Democrat]

Messrs. Editors:-Yesterday as I was passing along Main street I overheard two Douglas men engaged in what I supposed to be earnest conversation. I heard this remark-"Let us take him to the Bonney House, for we can get a HORN there if we want it." From what appeared afterward the said gentlemen were going to meet the little giant at the cars, he being on his way to Oquawka and was to stop over in the city till Monday. It seems Mr. Douglas and his friends like almost any sort of a horn except one spoken of by Prentice in the Louisville Journal, to wit; one offered to them by a certain Trum-Bull who turns up occasionally in different parts of this State.

One word in regard to the reception of Mr. Douglas. It was whispered around among a certain few that the Little Giant would arrive on the Peoria train at two o'clock. A self-appointed committee, number

ing three persons, having hoisted their colors, straightened their hair and mustaches and wiped the last horn off their lips with their coat sleeves, made tracks for the depot. As soon as the cars stopped the committee rushed into the hind car; Judge Douglas was visible and G. W. Ford said, "How d'ye do Mr. D.," as natural as possible. Mr. D. replied, "I am tolerable!" The rest of the Committee then went through the same performance, each one closing up, saying, "this is fine weather," then squirting a little tobacco juice and looking sidewise at Mr. D. A sort of procession was now formed consisting of one carriage and 18 or 20 persons on foot; among the pedestrians I observed 3 colored boys who seemed to be perfectly at home. Mr. Douglas had on a white hat and coat. This imposing spectacle then moved on, led by the committee to Anthony's lumber yard, thence down to Main street; thence to the Bonney House.

Here was an imposing spectacle. Little Mr. Douglas and his large white hat went into the Bonney House parlor, followed by several of the committee and the aforesaid colored boys. All the faithful in the city had by this time collected and one of them went so far as to propose a cheer, but Mr. D. saying at about this time that he would like some water to wash himself with, put a sudden stopper on this, and as he rose up to go to the wash room he turned round and smiled very benignly upon the crowd, to reciprocate which, the negro boys gave several stamps upon the floor and sidewalk.

After Mr. D. had washed he retired to a private room followed by Mr. Ford and Jim Davidson, and further deponent saith not, but it is reported around town this morning that Mr. D. asked Mr. Ford if it was true that he (Ford) did make an amalgamation speech at the Cable celebration in this city?

In this connection it may be well to say that the Railroad company sent up an extra to bring Mr. D., and charged only half fare for the 6 or 8 persons who came with him on the train. The most of said persons when last seen were in the neighborhood of a Bologna sausage shop on Boone Avenue where they probably stuffed themselves until they became perfectly torpid, in which state they will probably be shipped to Peoria as freight today.

Monday, October 4, 1858

BUCCANNEER

FIFTH JOINT DEBATE

Galesburg, October 7, 1858

Mr. Douglas's Speech

When the Senator appeared on the stand he was greeted with three tremendous cheers. He said:

Ladies and Gentlemen: Four years ago I appeared before the people of Knox County for the purpose of defending my political action upon the Compromise Measures of 1850 and the passage of the KansasNebraska bill. Those of you before me who were present then will remember that I vindicated myself for supporting those two measures by the fact that they rested upon the great fundamental principle that the people of each State and each Territory of this Union have the right, and ought to be permitted to exercise the right, of regulating their own domestic concerns in their own way, subject to no other limitation or restriction than that which the Constitution of the United States imposes upon them. I then called upon the people of Illinois to decide whether that principle of self-government was right or wrong. If it was and is right, then the Compromise Measures of 1850 were right, and consequently, the Kansas and Nebraska bill, based upon the same principle, must necessarily have been right. ["That's so," and cheers.]

The Kansas and Nebraska bill declared, in so many words, that it was the true intent and meaning of the Act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. For the last four years I have devoted all my energies, in private and public, to commend that principle to the American people. Whatever else may be said in condemnation or support of my political course, I apprehend that no honest man will doubt the fidelity with which, under all circumstances, I have stood by it.

During the last year a question arose in the Congress of the United States whether or not that principle would be violated by the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution. In my opinion, the attempt to force Kansas in under that constitution was a gross violation of the principle enunciated in the Compromise Measures of 1850, and Kansas and Nebraska bill of 1854, and therefore I led off in the fight against the Lecompton Constitution, and conducted it